Burundi

Busloads of returnees arriving in Burundi’s Musenyi transit centre from Mtabila refugee camp in Tanzania. The new arrivals are escorted by a delegation of UNHCR and members of the Burundian government.

Cyriaque Ndayikengurukiye, 18, was born in Mtabila camp in 1994, a year after his parents arrived in Tanzania, fleeing Burundi’s 1993 civil war. He hardly speaks a word of his parent’s native language, Kirundi. He recalls his parents collecting food twice a month. He learned later the food came from WFP.